With apologies for cross-listings:Final reminder: Tomorrow (Dec 1) last day to place Advance Reservation for CARMA Winter Short Courses:Greetings from the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA). We would like to announce that we are now taking reservations for two 2010 CARMA Winter Short Courses (Intermediate Structural Equation Analysis, Multi-Level Analysis Methods) to be held January 7-9, 2010! As you may know, CARMA is an interdisciplinary center devoted to research methods education with an organizational/social science emphasis that is now celebrating its eleventh year of operation. Last summer, nearly 200 faculty and doctoral students from universities throughout the United States and abroad participated in one or more of our short course events, and we also currently have over 140 universities from throughout the world participating in our CARMA Consortium Webcast Program and International Video Library Program, which has hosted 48 lectures on research topics that have been delivered live and via recordings using the internet. More information about CARMA and the events below can be found at our website: http://www.carma.vcu.edu/ 2010 Winter Short Course ProgramThe 2010 CARMA Winter Short Course Program includes two short courses. "Intermediate Structural Equation Analysis: Model Evaluation" (See below for more information)Instructor: Dr. Larry J. Williams, Virginia Commonwealth University (Wayne State University as of January 1, 2010)."Multi-Level Analysis Methods" (See below for more information)Instructor: Dr. Paul Bliese, Walter Reed Army Institute of ResearchProgram Dates and LocationThe 2010 CARMA Winter Short Course Program will be held from Thursday, January 7, 2010 – Saturday, January 9, 2010. These short courses will be held in Detroit, Michigan at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Fort Shelby/Detroit, Downtown. Please note that Short Course instruction will also take place at the DoubleTree Guest Suites. (http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/DTTLFDT-Doubletree-Guest-Suites-Fort-Shelby-Detroit-Downtown-Michigan/index.do). Low-cost accommodation (at a discounted rate of $89/night) is available at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Fort Shelby/Detroit, Michigan. Reservation Information and PricesEach person may register for only one course in this program (fees are charged per course). CARMA registration fees for these events are very reasonable (they include 2 lunches and one dinner). Each of the short courses lasts two and a half days and includes an equal balance of lecture and computer lab time with hands-on experience, with an emphasis on the application of the methodology. The Advanced Reservation rate for our short courses is $275 for students and $375 for faculty from Consortium Member Schools (click here to see a list of member schools: http://www.carma.vcu.edu/CurrentConsortiumMembers.asp?pid=25&lpid=20). The rate is $550 for students and $750 for faculty/nonacademic professionals from non-member schools. These rates are available until December 1, 2009 only (after this date a $75 late fee will be added to your reservation fee). Please be sure to reserve your spot before December 1, 2009 to avoid this late fee. Please note that payment for your Short Course reservation will be collected on-site only on January 7 at the beginning of your Short Course. The schedule for the 2010 CARMA Winter Short Courses, along with more specific information about instructors and fees, can be found on our website at: http://www.carma.vcu.edu/ Dr. Larry Williams and Dr. Paul Bliese are nationally recognized within the organizational studies and management areas as experts on their topics. CARMA has enjoyed considerable success in providing a stimulating and comfortable environment for learning research methods and data analysis.If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free contact us at carma@vcu.edu or you can call us at (804) 828-7112. We hope to see you in January for our CARMA 2010 Winter Short Courses!Thank you,Cary WellfordCARMA Assistant Director for Membership Development
Intermediate Structural Equation Analysis: Model Evaluation
Dr. Larry Williams
Virginia Commonwealth University
(Wayne State University as of January 1, 2010)
Course SummaryThis course is aimed at faculty and students with an introductory understanding of structural equation methods who seek a better understanding of the challenging process of making judgments about the adequacy of their models. Those who attend should have experience in fitting structural equation models with software such as LISREL, MPlus, EQS, or AMOS. Attendees will be expected to bring their own laptop computers installed with their SEM software, and they should also know how to import data from an SPSS save file into their SEM software program. Attendees will learn out to interpret and report results from SEM analyses, and how to conduct model comparisons to obtain information relevant to inferences about their models, as avantages and disadvantages of different approaches to model evaluation are considered.Course OutlineThe course will consist of five sections, with each section having a lecture and lab component using exercises and data provided by the instructor: Review of model specification and parameter estimationOverview of model evaluation Logic and computations for goodness-of-fit measures Analysis of residuals and latent variables Model comparison strategies Instructor BiographyDr. Larry J. Williams joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University (V.C.U.) as University Professor of Management in August of 1997, and previously he was an Associate Professor and Jay Ross Young Faculty Scholar at the Krannert School of Management of Purdue University (1987-1996) and the Fisher Distinguished Scholar in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at the University of Tennessee (1996-1997). Dr. Williams served as the Founding Editor of Organizational Research Methods (ORM), a journal sponsored by the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management, and he previously served as Consulting Editor for the Research Methods and Analysis section of the Journal of Management (1993-1996). Dr. Williams also has served as Chairperson for the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management and he established and currently serves as Director of the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA). Among his recent accomplishments, in 2004 Dr. Williams was recognized by the Southern Management Association as an author of 2 of the 6 most highly cited articles in the 30 year history of the Journal of Management. He was also elected in 2004 to be a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior, an international group of approximately 80 leading scholars from the field of organizational behavior. In 2005, Dr. Williams was selected to be the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Career Contributions Award by the Academy of Management's Research Methods Division. In 2008, Professor Williams was recognized as one of the 150 most-cited authors in the field of management (1981-2004) in an article published in the Journal of Management.
Multi-Level Analysis Methods
Dr. Paul Bliese
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Course SummaryThe CARMA Short Course on Multi-Level Analysis Methods provides both (1) the theoretical foundation, and (2) the resources and skills necessary to conduct a wide range of multilevel analyses. The course covers within-group agreement, nested 2-level multilevel modeling and growth modeling. All practical exercises are conducted in R. Software for this course is R Software and the Multilevel package. Course OutlineDay 1 1. Introduction and overview to Multilevel Models (PowerPoint) 2. Introduction to R (PowerPoint) a. Exercise 1: Installing R and the multilevel package b. Exercise 2: A Sample Session c. Exercise 3: Importing Data from EXCEL and SPSS 3. Composition Models, Agreement and Reliability (PowerPoint) a. Exercise 4: Estimating Within-Group Agreement and Reliability Day 2 4. Analytic Methods for multilevel modeling (PowerPoint) a. Exercise 5: Data manipulation Functions for Multilevel Models b. Exercise 6: Contextual Models c. Exercise 7: Covariance Theorem Decomposition of Correlations d. Exercises 8-10: Multilevel Random Coefficient Models Day 3 5. Growth Modeling (PowerPoint) a. Exercise 11: Growth Modeling Data Set Up b. Exercise 12: Growth Modeling Example 6. Participant Examples a. Bring data to work analytic problems as a group
Instructor BiographyDr. Paul Bliese has published a number of theoretical and methodological papers about applying mixed-effects models to occupational health research, sleep research and leadership research. Dr. Bliese has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods. Dr. Bliese maintains the multilevel library for the open-source statistical language R http://www.r-project.org/. R is a full-featured program with effective data handling facilities, a large collection of tools for data analysis, and publication quality graphical capabilities. The R platform along with the nlme, MASS, lme4, and multilevel libraries offers an extensive array of multi-level modeling tools.
Dr. Larry J. Williams, Director
Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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